{"product_id":"he-thinks-hes-down-white-appropriations-of-black-masculinities-in-the-civil-rights-era-hardback-9780774863728","title":"He Thinks He's Down; White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era (Hardback) 9780774863728","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHe Thinks He's Down\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWhite Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatharine Bausch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774863728\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBausch asks important and intriguing questions regarding white masculinity and Black men in the postwar era. - G.R. Butters Jr., Aurora University (CHOICE)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe end of the Second World War saw a \"crisis of white masculinity\" brought on by social, political, and economic change. \u003cem\u003eHe Thinks He's Down\u003c\/em\u003e explores the specific phenomenon of white men appropriating Black masculinities to benefit from what they believed were powerful Black masculinities. It reveals the intricate relationships between racialized gender identities, appropriation, and popular culture during the Civil Rights Era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on case studies from three genres of popular culture –the literature of Mailer and Kerouac, fashion in \u003cem\u003ePlayboy \u003c\/em\u003emagazine and action narratives in Blaxploitation films – Katharine Bausch untangles the ways in which white male artists took on imagined Black masculinities in their work in order to negotiate what it meant to be a man in America at this time. In so doing, Bausch argues, white men's use of Black masculinities drained Black men of their political and racial agency and reduced them once more to little more than stereotypes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Can He Be Down?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRebel Artists? Literary Constructions and Appropriations of Black Masculinity, 1945–65\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHef's Harlem Hip: The Soul Aesthetic in \u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine, 1964–79\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Badass: Blaxploitation Films in White America, 1971–79\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: When Can He Be Down?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes; Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531136692504,"sku":"9780774863728","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/he-thinks-hes-down-white-appropriations-of-black-masculinities-in-the-civil-rights-era-hardback-9780774863728","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}